
08/08/11, 12:12 PM
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Too Complicated For Cable
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Washington
Posts: 10,116
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TARP 2? ZeroHedge reports Bank of America going belly up!
Does the Fed have enough juice to even consider a TARP 2? Is there political will to allow it happen? Personally I was extremely against the first bailouts, they contributed largely to our national debt as it is. Another round of bailouts is, in my mind, unthinkable.
With Bank of America investors finally realizing it is game over for the company as a going concern, at this point there are just two options for Brian Moynihan: the spin off of CFC as a bad bank, backstopped by the Fed, or, well, Chapter 11, which for a bank is essentially liquidation (and with CDS trading up 50 bps to 260 a bankruptcy seems increasingly inevitable). It also means that another TARP is on the way. And once America realizes that another several trillion have to be put into its insolvent banking sector, it will get quite violent. The biggest irony: it is AIG which takes down the financial system for the second time after its lawsuit against BAC filed last night kills Bank of America.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/here-c...y-contemplated
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